Agreed more information would be helpful. With that said unless you power limit the CPU with RAPL/TLP/PPD / battery saver mode or change the fan curve yourself as far as I can tell this is just normal for the Framework laptop or perhaps all laptops now? Comparing to my previous machines this one is loud doing anything unless power limited even a 30s 200MB download from idle.
Some links for you to check out:
I’ve been experimenting with power capping using Intel RAPL limits on my Framework with the i5 1135 running Ubuntu 22.04 since I wasn’t happy with the CPU getting to 90C and the fan running very loud when I start a multi-core workload - let’s say multithreaded compiling.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/power/powercap/powercap.html
I stopped thermald to prevent it from changing the RAPL settings. Then I ran some tests with multi-core and single-core benchmarks and tweaked the limits to …
I was a bit annoyed by the noise of my FrameWork laptop’s fan, which was spinning way too fast for my taste, so I’ve written a little script to fix that over the weekend.
You can find it here: GitHub - TamtamHero/fw-fanctrl
There’s a bash script to install it as a service / uninstall it. I’ve only tested it on Ubuntu 20.04 but I think it should work on other distributions as well.
Feel free to improve it and push PRs, the script is very small (~100 lines of Python) and can be perfected/ made …
This question pertains both to
how can the user make the computer more thermally efficient / optimal for their use case
what can framework do to make the computer more thermally efficient / optimal for a variety of use cases.
Intro
I am a noob to computer hardware. I’m running Kubuntu with i5 / 2*16 GB memory. I personally don’t like the sound of the fan running and it also seems like higher temperatures are bad for the CPU. I know that it is possible to have a thermally efficient laptop be…
My framework is reaching around 55-60 c during things like writing this comment. I have the BIOS as turbo but I wouldn’t think that such a light load would generate this much heat. Temperature also has been an issue during video conferencing, which I have to do almost everyday; temperatures stay between 80-90 peaking at 100.
Do I maybe have to change the thermal pads/paste?
Any help is appreciated